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Suppose there are 500 misprints in a book of 750 pages. Assuming that the number of misprints per page is a poisson random variate. The probability that a page selected at random has more than one mis print is

A

`e^(-2//3)`

B

`(5)/(3)e^(-2//3)`

C

`1-e^(-2//3)4)`

D

`1-(5)/(3)e^(-2//3)`

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